griffe witte of the "washington post" joining us from london. thanks so much. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, search crews in the mediterranean have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the egyptair plane that crashed last month. the flight disappeared between crete and the egyptian coast, killing all 66 people on board. investigators say the voice recorder was damaged, but its memory unit is still intact. they're working to see if it sheds light on what caused the crash. >> sreenivasan: in washington, c.i.a. director john brennan warned today that the islamic state group is trying to send operatives into the west to carry out new attacks. brennan told the senate intelligence committee that the militants hope high-profile attacks will compensate for territory they've lost in iraq and syria. >> isil has a large cadre of western fighters who could potentially serve as operatives for attacks in the west. and the group is probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the west, including in refugee flows, smuggling

for the latest on the ground, let's go to griff witte joining us on the fast line. griff, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you, melissa. >> i know there haven't been any polls since the tragic murder of jo cox, but what's your accepts on how things have changed sing that event? >> well, politics has really been put on hold for the last couple of days in the uk. obviously it was all eu referendum here all the time for weeks on end. this killing has really shocked everyone in the uk. this is not the kind of thing that happens here. obviously there have been a lot of very tragic catastrophes in the u.s. but it's not the type of thing you see in the uk. the policies have been put on the back burner. there was a surge in support for leaving. whether that continues after the attack remains to be seen. we'll see when campaigning picks it back up again. >> here in the united states, griff, the prevailing sentiment seems to be that, yes, the polls may show there is a growing wave of sentiment to leaving the eu, but ultimately when people get into the voting b

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